These US States Workers are Quitting Their Jobs Rapidly

According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in 2021, reasons for employees leaving their jobs include low pay, limited growth opportunities, and disrespectful work environments. There are many reasons why employees may decide to resign, from simple things like relocating to a different state, to more intense situations such as conflicts with a manager.

Quits have decreased from the recent period of historically high rates during the Great Resignation. As of December 2023, the national quit rate stood at 2.2%, which translates to approximately 3.4 million individuals, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the last year, job cuts at large companies in the U.S. have reduced feelings of job stability, leading to more people staying in their current positions due to concerns about a possible economic downturn.

Nevertheless, some states are still struggling with high turnover rates. Stacker ranked states based on their preliminary December 2023 quit rates, using the number of quitters as a tiebreaker when necessary, to determine which ones stood out. Quit rates are determined by dividing the number of quits in a month by the total number of jobs in a state, then converting it to a percentage.

These States Workers are Quitting Their Jobs

West Virginia

• Quit rate: 3.1%
• Number of quits: 22,000

Montana

• Quit rate: 3.1%
• Number of quits: 16,000

Alaska

• Quit rate: 3.0%
• Number of quits: 10,000

Georgia

• Quit rate: 3.0%
• Number of quits: 148,000

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Mississippi

• Quit rate: 2.8%
• Number of quits: 33,000

Louisiana

• Quit rate: 2.7%
• Number of quits: 53,000

Tennessee

• Quit rate: 2.7%
• Number of quits: 90,000

Delaware

• Quit rate: 2.7%
• Number of quits: 13,000

Wyoming

• Quit rate: 2.7%
• Number of quits: 8,000

Texas